Hello, ladies. Hello, gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson Show. I am Jack Fowler,

the man very lucky to be the host and to get to ask the questions you'd like to ask

of our star named Sake Victor Davis Hanson. He is the Martin and Eli Anderson Senior Fellow

at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marciobusky Distinguished Fellow in history

at Hillsdale College, where he is right now as we are about to talk. Victor has been there

for about a week as he does this. This is his 19th or 20th annual trek to Hillsdale to engage

with the students and the community there. We've a lot to talk about as we always do Victor

and Boyle Boy. I know you don't like to talk about Tony Fauci, but I think we're going

to have to bring him and masks up as the first topic. And we're going to do that right after

these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson Show. Victor is a new strain out. Pressure from

certain the folks who just love masks, the bureaucrats who love masks. I believe there's one

school system in Maryland that of course is again forcing elementary school kids to return to school

wearing masks and a whole shabang is an opportunity for our favorite gain of function,

funder, Anthony Fauci to come out of the woodwork and give another spin, another version update.

He had so many long away on masks. Victor, your thoughts about the recent reappearance of

little Tony. Anthony Fauci is reaching a caricature territory. I mean, after three years of seeing him

and looking at his office where he does interviews where he has all these little ball head images

of himself and pictures of himself and paintings of himself. And then on the mask, I was introduced

to Anthony Fauci with the rest of your listeners when he told us that what mask they're not,

and they wouldn't help. And then all of a sudden is they would help, but I lied because if I told

the truth, you might go out and buy masks. And then our people who needed masks wouldn't be able to

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